Warhammer: Vermintide 2, arguably one of the best co-op games and certainly the best in the L4D genre since L4D2, is now free to keep forever on Steam. For the low, low price of zero buckaroons, you can get a fantastic game that is still being updated and maintained.
But, if you want to do so, you’re going to have to claim the game before Nov. 24, the last day of the free-to-keep program. Vermintide 2 does these kinds of events every year, allowing new players to hop into the game free of charge and decide if they wanna stay. The title continuously receives new updates, events, and content, even if it’s been seven full years since it first launched.
What’s more, its younger brother Warhammer 40K: Darktide is actively being developed by the same studio, meaning they’re still setting time and resources aside to keep Vermintide 2 up to snuff, which I can only commend the devs for.
Whereas Darktide itself has a lot of issues that are slowly but surely being fixed, Vermintide 2 is ironed out to the utmost, has an incredible community, tons of DLC and extra content to play through, and a co-op experience unlike any other. You can play it solo with bots or alongside up to three friends, beating the Skaven to a pulp and trying to prevent the inevitable Endtimes, i.e., the worst thing that has happened to Warhammer in its history.
It plays out much like Left 4 Dead, where four characters eliminate hordes of enemies, complete objects, and survive map to map in a loosely-connected narrative sequence of levels. From open framlands to urban Germanic Renaissance towns, Vermintide 2 is diverse in both its locales and the enemies you’ll be fighting (which are, like in L4D, separated into commons and elites).
So, if you’re itching for a good L4D experience but don’t want to spend a dime in the disaster that was Back 4 Blood, then don’t miss out on this chance. Seriously, don’t miss it, it’s a masterpiece and, well, a Warhammer game, which itself is worthy of attention.
